Bird Watching

The lusty ladettes of British pop

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MEAN GIRLS Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Charlotte Church, and Lady Sovereign

Once upon a time, English women set the standard for feminine decorum. Today, if these ladies are any indication, they're a boozed-up bunch of F-bomb-dropping hooligans, more prone to flashing T and A than minding p's and q's. Is the bloom off the rose?


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TOUGH ABROAD Amy Winehouse arrives at the BRIT Awards

Amy Winehouse, 23

AKA
"Alehouse"; "Amy Wino"

HAILS FROM
Southgate, North London

DRESSES LIKE
A cracked-out Supreme

TRACK RECORD
Debut album, Back to Black, reached number seven in the U.S. and number one in the UK

ON SEX
"Upstairs in bed, with my ex boy / He's in the place, but I can't get joy"

ON DRUGS
“They tried to make me go to rehab / I said ‘No, no, no!’”

ON FOOD
“I went through every eating disorder you can have”

PRINCE CHARMING
Blake Fielder-Civil, whose name is tattooed on her chest

GREATEST HITS
"Rehab"; hollering "Shut up! I don't give a fuck!" during Bono's acceptance speech at the Q Awards; showing up trashed on The Charlotte Church Show

STREET CRED
Ghostface Killah remixed her single “You Know I’m No Good”

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